So wrong... so SO wrong...

[mijan]

You'd have to know my sister.  Amateur comedian, very politically incorrect, but not in a mean way at all.  She's not a prejudiced person at all - it's just that if something is funny, she's likely to say it.  She'll make jokes about anything, including herself, but she'll never say something that could be seen as rude in front of strangers who don't know what she's like. 

So, my mother just told me something that happened, and I almost choked laughing.  A couple of months ago, she and my mother were at a baseball game.  The Red Sox had lost, and they were in the line for the ladies room before they left the park.  Now, my sister doesn't curb her language when she's irritated, and seeing as the Sox had lost, she was irritated, and she was cussing.  What follows is the conversation:

Sibling: *swears*
Mom: Yvette!  There are little people around here!  (She meant children.)
Mom: *looks behind her, and notices that one of the "short people" is not a child, but an actual midget*
Sibling:  *has not seen the midget*
Sibling: Oh, you mean like midgets?
Mom: *bugs out*  SHHHH!!!  *gestures with her elbow*
Sibling:  Oh shit.
Midget: *hadn't heard the exchange*

I wish I'd bee there.

Comments

[fiona-fawkes.livejournal.com]

*dies*

[emeraldandazure.livejournal.com]

omg! lol thats hilarious XD

[daddybear716.livejournal.com]

I LOVE LITTLE PEOPLE! What I especially love is people who are obsessively afraid of little people. Here is Buffalo we have a black midget drag queen! How cool is that!?!?!? And she is fabulous!

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

What a great place to live! I love living in Buffalo, but moreover, I love people-watching in Buffalo. *Thanks to Wonderfalls, I keep looking for the tranny in the wheelchair, or the Muffin Buffalo lady when I go to Niagara Falls.*

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

*gigglesnort*

This would be funny anyway, but it's even better since I've actually met your sister! Heh.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my sister is kinda like that. *snicker*

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

Outstanding!

*has those sorts of days frequently*
Remember when "White and Nerdy" came out? The first time I watched it with my husband, I turned to him and said, in an indulgent, amused tone, "Those silly Negroes!" when the black guys flip Weird Al off. It's the expression on his face, you know? As if he's saying it... Okay, so that was meant to be humorous. That's one of our long-standing jokes.

However, one of the unintentionally humorous one-liners was when we were riding the Buffalo subway system. I had my sunglasses on and was descending the escalator, and could barely see anything because it was so dark down there. So, quite innocently, I remarked, "With these glasses on, I feel like Stevie Wonder..."

Apparently we were the only white people on the train when I said this, however... and my voice carries.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Did people get irritated because you made the blind joke, but you're white? *sigh* People get touchy about the wierdest things.

Humour is humour, and I wish people could relax about the things that aren't intended as hurtful. And I personally think the Stevie Wonder comment is funny. I bet he would have thought so, too.

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, they seemed amused by me. It's the people I'm with that tend to be shocked by my verbal explosions.

My mom used to be hung up on what other people think. Like, say I mentioned that I wanted a pixie haircut like yours. She'd disapprove because she feels it gives people the impression that I am a dyke. I told her that it didn't matter to me what anyone thought, and that I love lesbians. Or recently, when I noticed a fine figure and commented on the beauty of the female body. I meant it in an artistic sense, mind you, but she was appalled that it wasn't just a passing fancy. People will think I am something that I am not, according to her. However, I am attracted to women. Being married has not changed that. (She didn't care for that answer.)
The thought that went through my head was that a Catholic priest may be celibate, but he can still find women attractive. (I kept that to myself, which proves that I am capable of restraint on occasion.)

~Luna~